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Almost half the freshmen at the University of California at Berkeley flunked an English composition exam this fall. They have had to enroll in a remedial course known around the campus as "Bonehead English." At the University of Miami, the English department has set up an elaborate tutoring center where video tapes are used to help entering students learn grammar, punctuation and organization. At the University of Houston, 60% of the freshmen fail the first three essays they write. Says Jesse Hartley, Houston's director of freshman English: "Students can't carry through an idea in writing; they...
...Berkeley, says Instructor Kimberly Davis, the average student in the Bonehead English course "attended a good high school, probably received B's if not A's in English, and is either distressed, appalled or outraged to discover that he can't write up to university standards." Six Berkeley students recently put their anger in writing. After some editing help from their instructor they mailed a letter to their high school English department protesting their poor preparation. They never got an answer...
...added that Scientists and Engineers for Political and Social Action, a group similar to Scientists Against War Research, has organized similar protests against Jason at Princeton, Berkeley, and Columbia...
...Surprising casualness" (Raoul Berger of Harvard). "Dangerous nonsense" (Gerald Gunther of Stanford). "Disturbingly cavalier" (Paul J. Mishkin of Berkeley...
...Eager. Another result of the desire to head off criticism, said Berkeley's Mishkin, was that the court did not wish to seem to be judging Nixon's guilt and therefore avoided any "allusion to possible [criminal] implication of the President himself." That deprived the Justices of the chance to frame forthrightly a rule strong enough but narrow enough to deal only with a President suspected of wrongdoing...